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  • Dance: THE EQUALITY OF NIGHT AND DAY: “First Glimpse” and “Upside Down” (Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE at Royce Hall)

    By Lamont Washington | January 20, 2022
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    CAP UCLA Presents The Equality of Night and Day: First Glimpse and Upside Down  From Prolific Choreographer Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE  Saturday, March 5 at 8 p.m. Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Equality. Photo by Christopher George, courtesy of The Kennedy Center UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA)  presents award-winning choreographer  Ronald K. Brown  and his company  EVIDENCE  performing  The Equality of Night…

  • Off-Broadway Theater: JERSEY BOYS (1000th performance)

    By Gregory Bernard | January 9, 2022
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    The Tony Award-Winning Musical Jersey Boys Celebrates 1000th  Performance  at New World Stages Today, Sunday, January 9 January 15, 2017                 4,642 performances                            August Wilson Theatre January 9, 2022                      1,000 performances (and counting)                New World Stages The Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning musical  Jersey Boys  celebrates its 1000th performance at New York City’s New World Stages…

  • Theater Review: THE BAND’S VISIT (National Tour)

    By Marc Wheeler | December 8, 2021
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    LOST IN THE DESERT Winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical of 2018, Itamar Moses’s The Band’s Visit is one of the most highly-awarded shows in musical theater history. And yet, those expecting the razzmatazz of a Big Broadway Musical in The Band’s Visit’s “post-shutdown” North American  Tour are likely to be at least somewhat…

  • Theater Review: FROZEN (North American Tour)

    By Dan Zeff | December 8, 2021
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    THIS SHOW STAYS FROZEN The Walt Disney animated film Frozen grossed about $1.28 billion dollars during its international run, and when there is a commercial success like that, reworkings and adaptations cannot be far behind. The franchise has included an animated short in 2015, an animated featurette in 2017, and a feature-length sequel, Frozen II,…

  • Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)

    By Harvey Perr | November 13, 2021
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    MY FAILED LADY Let’s make one thing clear. When a national touring company of a Broadway success comes to your city, proclaiming it is a duplicate of the original production, what is meant by “production” is that it is guaranteed to have the same sets and costumes and sound design. It will look great and…

  • Theater Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (National Tour)

    By William C. | November 12, 2021
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    JESUS TRADES SOUL FOR A MAN BUN While the the 50th anniversary tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is still finding its footing in this truncated version (90 intermissionless minutes), Timothy Sheader’s 2016 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production was greeted warmly by patrons at Segerstrom Hall, the tour’s kickoff…

  • Dance: THE HIP HOP NUTCRACKER (National Tour)

    By Lamont Washington | November 2, 2021
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    IT WILL HAVE YOU HIPHOPPING IN THE AISLES Everything old is new again. Tchaikovsky’s 129-year-old ballet is reimagined as a holiday dance spectacle in The Hip Hop Nutcracker. It is one of the most original takes on this oft-produced dance piece. Tchaikovsky and hip-hop turn out to be great partners. The 34-city tour kicks off…

  • Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)

    By Tony Frankel | October 12, 2021
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    STILL THE FAIREST I’m rather certain one cannot visit enough  productions of  My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw’s  Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Henry Higgins, a puffed-up upper-class grammarian, and Eliza Doolittle, his lower-class, flower girl protégé whom Higgins turns into a lady by changing her speech. With one of the most…

  • CD: CARELESS LOVE: ALBUM REISSUE AND TOUR DATES (Madeline Peyroux)

    By Connor McCormick | August 27, 2021
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    Special edition includes previously-unreleased 2005 set from Spain’s Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz The acclaimed jazz singer embarks on a global Careless Love Forever  tour this fall Craft Recordings announces the deluxe reissue of Madeleine Peyroux’s best-selling 2004 album,  Careless Love.  Set for release now, the collection includes the acclaimed, original album, plus a previously-unreleased live set, captured…

  • Opera: HEARTBEAT OPERA (2021-22 Season, NYC and Tour)

    By Gregory Bernard | August 10, 2021
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    HEARTBEAT OPERA — the indie opera company whose re-imagined, re-orchestrated and stripped down stagings of classic operas have been called “a radical endeavor” by Alex Ross in The New Yorker — returns to the in-person stage for its eighth season this year. THE 2021-22 SEASON BREATHING FREE, a visual album September 18 at Pier 63,…

  • Off-Broadway: STOMP (Re-opening on July 20 at the Orpheum)

    By Tony Frankel | June 5, 2021
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    REIGNITING THE RHYTHM STOMP, which I originally saw at New York’s 299-seat Orpheum Theatre in 1994, has performers using their bodies and both industrial and household objects as percussive musical instruments, and it was performance art nirvana. Years later, it still retains the original flair and comedy that makes it so enjoyable. The indefatigable, rhythmic,…

  • Broadway: HADESTOWN (reopening at the Walter Kerr Theatre)

    By Gregory Bernard | June 3, 2021
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    HELL-O AGAIN! Who knew a trip to the underworld could be so much fun? Epic, touching, poetic, and tragic — and winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical — this new twist on two classic Greek myths  is a rousing adventure from start to finish. Now, Hadestown is returning to Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre…

  • Off-Broadway Theater and North American Tour: FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY (The Jerry Orbach Theater)

    By Gregory Bernard | June 2, 2021
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    FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE TOUR WITH A SUMMERTIME RUN IN NYC PREVIEWS BEGIN JULY 19, 2021 OFF-BROADWAY AT THE JERRY ORBACH THEATER Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Monica, Joey and Phoebe are coming back to the Big Apple. As friends across America begin to gather again, Friends! The Musical Parody, the hilarious unauthorized sendup of…

  • Theater Review: HOME (On Tour at The Broad Stage)

    By Harvey Perr | March 7, 2020
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    A HOME RUN What do you think of when you think of home? Is it the place where you were born? Is it where you are living now? Is it where you followed your growth by measuring yourself against one of its walls? Is it the home you built? Is it the home you inherited…

  • Music Preview: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS WITH JOSHUA BELL, VIOLIN (The Soraya)

    By Tony Frankel | February 26, 2020
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    I’LL BE THERE WITH BELL ON Many know that Academy of St Martin in the Fields is a touring and recording chamber orchestra founded by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958. But did you know that since 2011 the world-renowned virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell has been their Music Director? Next to Marriner, who turns 90 next…

  • Theater Review: THE BOOK OF MORON (Tour)

    By Lawrence Bommer | February 26, 2020
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    STAND-UP MEETS SELF-HELP It’s a singular solo show: Creator of The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron, satirist Robert Dubac now delivers Book of Moron, an 85-minute riff on reality and all its threats. Delivering rapid-fire, hit-and-run observations about contemporary consciousness, this driven lecturer imagines himself coming out of the coma of everyday existence to embark on…

  • Theater Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON (Tour)

    By Tony Frankel | February 20, 2020
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    I CAN ALWAYS USE MORE MEN Well, here’s a national tour that isn’t resting on its laurels. Somewhat tighter with impeccably glorious performances, a golden angel high above at the center of a light-filled proscenium arch seems to trumpet, The Book of Mormon is here to douse your doldrums with a delirious, dandy delight. It…

  • Theater Review: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL (National Tour)

    By Lawrence Bommer | February 14, 2020
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    DISCO’S ONCE AND FUTURE DIVA As the song says, “Dim All The Lights” — or set them to scorching splendor. Anyway, the giant mirror ball is back, scintillating and scattering flecks of light throughout the Nederlander Theater. The ensemble is gallivanting in sequin suits and skirts. The song is “Last Dance,” the final exaltation in…

  • Theater Review: RIVERDANCE (25th Anniversary Tour)

    By Lawrence Bommer | February 5, 2020
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    STILL STEPPING This Irish extravaganza is celebrating its 25th  anniversary, a quarter century of Celtic thunder as thousands of feet have pounded countless floorboards. What  Stomp offered to percussive street-dancing and Forever Tango did for Argentina’s national cooch dance, Riverdance breathtakingly delivers to Irish dance and its cultural spin-offs. Wowing rapt crowds in a tour to mark…

  • Theater Review: FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE (Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Theater in Los Angeles)

    By Marc Wheeler | January 29, 2020
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    IF THE GLOVE FITS… On the heels of Leaving Neverland — the jaw-dropping 2019 documentary that explores the sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson — comes the world premiere of a musical that posits a bizarre, untold story of the King of Pop. For the Love of a Glove is a ribald, lampooning satire that…

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